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Fiddler With Musical Passport
A fiddler comes to a village to play for a group of local people. He has no travel document with him. Instead, he always travels with his violin, and that speaks for itself. He holds a musical passport, that enables him to travel in space and time: his repertoire of dances, songs, and picturesque melodies that describe landscapes in a language of harmonies.
Romania With Love
Let’s discover Romanian Music through East European Culture. Traditional dances, ballads, rhythms and harmonies create a musical journey that uses the language of sounds to tell the story of the life at the countryside.
Somewhere in an old village, the hope still shines within people’s hearts. Today, this hope is brought to us by music, and it opens our hearts. It makes us feel the magic of the countryside life, the forest, the dusty lanes, small houses, the fresh smell of the grass, the sound of a lark accompanying the peasants’ songs while working the ground or dancing in their village.
The Skylark
A short piece named 'Ciocârlia' (translation: The Skylark), composed by Romanian composer of Roma ethnicity Angheluș Dinicu and adapted for violin by his grandson, Grigoraș Dinicu
The legend says that, a long time ago, there was a young woman named Lia who was in love with the Sun. After managing to use supernatural powers to fly high up in the sky, she had finally reached her destination: the kingdom of her beloved Sun. Not too long after her arrival, she had been discovered by the Sun's mother who had decided to send her away by any means. Thus, she had transformed Lia into a bird, a skylark. Since then, the bird has been singing beautifully and flying high up in the sky, although rarely seen. Lia, had become 'Ciocârlia', which, in Romanian means 'the Skylark'.
Journey With Bach
How would it be to go back in time and listen to the music from those times?
The laic and the religious worlds are very different from each other, and yet, both of them are connected in the same life. Music is the one that brings these two worlds together.
1720, an old imperial castle in Germany, a large ballroom, chandeliers, dancers, nobility, knights dressed in elegant costumes dancing together with ladies dressed in crinolines, refined dishes on the large tables, court musicians, and…music. Each dance brings in a new feeling that creates a sense of community. Not too far from the castle, there is a church where people come not just to pray, but also to listen to the music that is played there quite often.
